Marxist’s Love for Yoga

Kannur: The self-ridiculing streak of Marxists seem endless, with the latest attempt towards the same being a display of ‘Secular Yoga’. Not only was the attempt was self- ridiculing, but also made the red brigade cut a sorry figure in front of the world. Marxists were in the forefront to ridicule yoga when our Prime Minister advocated it’s importance internationally.

Organized by CPM, the new version of yoga began sans prayers and customary yogic mantras in the presence of party bigwigs like Kodiyeri Balakrishnan, Pinarayi Vijayan, EP Jayarajan, PK Sreemati etc. Sources have indicated that the latest fad has given rise to criticism within the party, pointing out the party’s aimless pursuit of ideological propagation, when the party had made dialectical materialism the basic tenet of their political aspiration. Party critics outside have sought to know if the party’s bigwigs are so ignorant regarding yoga, which even though can be labelled secular, can never be severed from its spiritual aura.

The charade organized in Kannur stadium by Indian Martial Arts Academy and Yoga Study Centre had spiritual guru, Yogi Sri M as chief guest. However the statements made by Sri M served to expose the shallow nature of the Marxist feat.

Epitomizing Patanjali Maharshi, Sri M ‘s The enlightening speech lasted for around 30 minutes. But the spiritually bereft Marxists, who put up the show of being positioned in ‘chinmudra’ left the pose in a span of five minutes and were seen jittery, turning left and right endlessly.